The answer is D: City authorities were given powers to place restrictions on playhouses. The first playhouse built by Brayne and Burgage, in 1576, was The Theather. After one year, the second playhouse was built, The Curtain, in the same district of Shoreditch. In 1584, the city of London asked the district to close their playhoses. But there is no evidence that this petition had achieved its goal.